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Man, Know Thyself 

BY JOHN W. RAIKES. 



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Brief Sketch of Author s Life 



JOHN W. RAIKES, born of negro parents, 
July the 8th, 1850, in New Castle County, 
State of Delaware. 

Converted, February, 1882, and have filled 
offices in the Church, as Class-leader, Steward, 
and Trustee. 

As, a leader, I would not sell love-feast 
tickets on Sunday, nor receive any money, but 
the books showed that my class was the best 
paying class in the Church, according to the 
members, and they mostly young people. They 
liked me, and I liked them, but the Pastor 
thought it best to make a change. 

As Steward, about two w T eeks before Con- 
ference, I asked the Secretary, what we owed the 
Pastor ? And he said " forty dollars. " 

I made a motion, that we pay the Pastor the 
balance of his salary, and put the rest in the 
treasury, for the next Pastor. 

I think all of the Brethren said, " It was the 
best thing done in the board. " 

I told them, I was glad they thought so ; 
you may not think so before it is all over; 



although I don't see how any one could think 
different. He gets his salary ; what more ? I 
hope you will all stick to it. 

Now the Pastor, and the older members of 
the board were not there, but when they heard, 
they saw the members of the board and changed 
their minds. 

When we met the following Monday night, 
we had a hundred and forty dollars. 

I think they asked every man, to speak on 
it, but it was worse after the main ones had 
spoken, for then they all agreed to with-draw 
what they had said. 

When all had spoken, then they asked me, 
I said, " I'm the same now, as I was before, and 
I think the same. We pay the Pastor eight 
hundred and fifty dollars a year, house-rent and 
fuel given, and I think he can live nicely on 
that. Some of us don't get four hundred a year, 
and have to pay house-rent and keep our 
families. " But they gave him that money. 

Then the Pastor said, " He didn't think 
he had a man in his board with such a spirit as 
Brother Raikes. " 

Later on, I was elected Trustee, and the 
very night we met to organize, some ladies came 
in to borrow some money for a fair; I objected 
to it, but it passed, and they went in to make 
arrangements. The Pastor appointed me to 






stand at the door, and sell tickets for certain 
nights. I told him, I didn't approve of Church 
fairs. 

He remarked, " you are a Trustee now, and 
will have to do it. " 

I told him I wouldn't, then said he, " send 
in your resignation, " this I did. 

All these things, did not happen under the 
same Pastor, but to be an officer in the Church, 
and to be true to your righteous convictions, 
means something. 

I asked the Pastor to let me have an early 
six o'clock meeting, if the Trustees would be 
willing? Some were opposed to it, but the 
Pastor said, "let him have it, it won't amount to 
anything." So he told me, "to go ahead." 

The first Sunday morning, no one came, 
but the Lord wonderfully blessed me, and I said, 
"if no body comes, I will be found here." The 
next Sunday morning two came, then they be- 
gan to come, until it grew to be a nice gathering, 
of people from different churches, different 
nations, and was a power in the City. 

The Pastor spoke of it from the pulpit, what 
a blessing it was to the Church, and how he 
enjoyed it. 

He didn't come in the room, where the 
meeting was, but sat in an adjoining room, and 



his reason for doing so, was, sometimes he 
might not be able to stay until it was out, then 
he could go without interrupting the meeting. 
He has taken my hand many times and said, 
" God bless you. " 

Now this very same Pastor, one morning 
was in the adjoining room, and I was explaining 
to the people about Jesus, entry into Jerusalem, 
how they cried hosanna in the highest, and 
taken their garments and spread them in the 
way. 

In a few days, the same people were saying, 
" crucify him. " 

And I said, you don't often hear it explained 
why they turned against Jesus. 

While the people were honoring Jesus, the 
High Priest, Scribes, and Elders held a council, 
aud they said, " we will tell the people, that Jesus 
said, he would tear down this temple, and in 
three days build it again, " they also instructed 
the people, to ask for Barabbas and crucify 
Jesus. This was all done, by the Chief Priest, 
Scribes, and Elders. 

The same week, my leader notified me to 
meet the board, but he wouldn't say, what for. 
But I met a Brother, who was a member of the 
board, and a friend, and I asked him, but he said, 
if you won't say anything about it. I said, I 
can't do that, but I won't say who told me, (for 



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all had been instructed not to tell me anything 
about it.) 

So he said, they have a charge against you, 
for preaching without license, and there will be 
three men, at the next Sunday morning meet- 
ing, to be witnesses that you preach ; so he 
asked me not to read the bible that morning. 

I went to Church as usual, in came, the men, 
one by one, I didn't let on, I knew anything 
about them being there. 

" I opened, by giving the number of the 
hymn. I seen one take note, after prayers, I 
said, I would read a few verses of Scripture, 
(giving out the chapter) he again taking note. 

Then in came the Pastor; I went on, as I 
was explaining and telling the people the differ- 
ences between will power, and the power of God, 
by experiences. 

The Pastor arose, and said, "stop! you 
shall not preach in this Church without license. " 

When he was done, I said to the people, we 
will speak, sing, and pray, we had a nice meet- 
ing no one spoke of the things that had 
happened. 

The spies went out one by one till all of 
them was gone, the Pastor leaving first. 

When the meeting was over, and the people 
out on the Street, you could hear in low T tones, 
1 ' did you ever see anything like that ? ' ■ 



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Then on Monday night, I was to meet the 

board, and when I met them, the Pastor said, 

' here is Brother Raikes, now we will proceed. " 

" Brother Raikes, you are charged here for 
preaching without license, you are to ask this 
board to forgive you, and you are not to read 
the Bible any more in this Church ; are you 
willing ? 

I said, " do you really mean I preach ? 

Yes, he said, "you preach just as acceptable 
as some of our ordained men, and you can't do 
it here. " 

I then said, "it does seem hard, to be 
brought here as a criminal, after being in this 
Church for twenty years, and have given the 
Church an upright life, and my money. 

I also said, "why didn't you tell me, I was 
doing things contrary to the Church, and tell 
me to ask for license, since you say my preach- 
ing is acceptable?" And he said, "never 
mind, the thing you are to do is to ask forgive- 
ness ; are you willing to do it ? " 

I said "no," and he said, "that is all." 
I didn't care to hear him preach nor to pay him, 
but, I did give to the Church. 

About two months afterward, he read my 
name out, as no longer a member. But I kept 
the early six o'clock meetings, they were had 
at my house. 



Later on, one of the Churches opened her 
doors, and we had a ten days meeting. 

We had a very nice time, one morning, at 
the service I told the people that their sins 
were not forgiven when they were converted, this 
like to broke up the meeting, for it w r as some- 
thing new to them and it was new to me, but it 
was showed to me and made plain. Then I ex- 
plained to them, how they sinned after their con- 
version, and how they must keep the ten com- 
mandments before their sins were forgiven. And 
that the law was only our School-master, to bring 
us to Jesus, and Jesus w r as the one to forgive sin, 
for he destroys the cause that makes the act, then 
your sins are forgiven. But this is not what we 
have been taught, so it is hard to accept it. 

But there were two or three believed it, so I 
turned with three others to the children. We 
got a place and called it the City Mission, on the 
sign board, was the following words: "Unde- 
nominational, Creed or Color, the Fatherhood of 
God, the Brotherhood of man, and with one 
blood, God made all nations of the world. All 
are welcome." 

The children were hunted up, that didn't go 
to any Sunday School, for we hadn't adopted the 
seventh day then. If they hadn't clothes the 
women would fix some for them, and if they 
hadn't shoes I would see that they got a pair, 
(for I had a shoe store then.) So we had a nice 
mixed Sunday School for seven years. 



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Some of the things we taught them, and im- 
pressed upon them, was the ten commandments, 
and more especially the second commandment, 
particularly the part that says: "Visiting the 
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto 
the third and fourth generation of them that hate 
me : and showing mercy unto thousands of them 
that love me and keep my commandments." 

Now our children were mostly of those whose 
parents were dissipated, and the deceiving spirit 
has crept in every place. 

He makes people believe that its useless to 
try to be anything if their parents wasn't any- 
thing, and by this many bright minds are kept 
from development. Everybody finds it hard to 
get up out of sin, but think of the one who has 
dissipated parents and they know of their badness. 

The deceiving spirit tells them you can't 
help it, it is born in you. But this hasn't any- 
thing to do with it, because Jesus came to destroy 
the works of the devil and we taught them that 
he would show mercy unto thousands of them 
that loved him and kept his commandments. We 
tried to impress upon them that it didn't make 
any difference what kind of parents the child had 
it could be as good as any body, if it would keep 
the commandments. 

As a laborer I worked for a firm now known 
as the "Delaware Terra Cotta Brick Manufact- 
urers Company" for forty years. Being a man 



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of quick temper and determined to conquer it, I 
fasted every Friday for twelve years, didn't eat or 
drink. I tried to keep the men from knowing it, 
but I couldn't and they tried to reason with me 
and have me eat. 

They were churchmen but they didn't know 
what I had to conquer. I was greatly imposed 
upon by men. One day a man cursed and abused 
me before the men and shook his fist in my face. 
I wanted to fight him, but the law had bound 
these evil powers and I had to be humiliated be- 
fore all the men. I went away to myself, shed a 
few tears and thanked the Lord for keeping me. 

A few days afterward laying my hand on him 
and calling him by name, I asked him why he 
had abused me ? he bowed his head in shame and 
said, "you didn't do anything to me it was noth- 
ing but the devil." I said, "I know it." Now 
this man was a terrible swearer, but never after 
this would he curse or swear in my presence 
and if it happened that he done it he would ask 
me to excuse him, and how glad I was to have 
those evil powers bound. 

There was another man who worked with me 
and he was the most disagreeable man I ever 
knew, he would curse me and want to fight, but 
I wouldn't say anything to him, he was sickly. 
He worked with me seven years. He lived in 



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another State and he was going to leave and go 
home. He had an aunt living here, and he said 
to her. "I have worked with J. W. Raikes seven 
years and have done most everything to him, but 
never saw him mad, he is a Christian." 

These things were hard to bear, I wanted to 
fight but the law had these powers bound, but it 
was a fight within to keep from fighting without 
but there came a time when all the fight within 
was gone, for Jesus had entered in and cast that 
spirit out, so fight and desire was gone. 



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Man, Know Thyself. 



The object in writing this book is to bring 
before the reader, not something new, because 
Solomon says, " there is nothing new under the 
sun, " and there is nothing new, but all things 
are in the mind of God and he gives them out to 
Man; therefore I want to bring to you some 
things that were hidden from the foundation of 
the world. 

It has often been asked where Cain got his 
wife, since there was supposed to be but three 
people on the earth at that time : Adam, Eve 
and Cain. Cain had killed Abel and God had 
put on him a curse, " and he went out from the 
presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of 
Nod, on the east of Eden, and Cain knew his 
wife. (Gen. 4 chap. 16-17. 

The 1 8th Chapter of Genesis reads thus : 
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains 
of Mamre, and he sat in the tent door in the 
heat of the day ; and he lifted up his eyes and 
looked, and lo, three men stood by him; and 
when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the 
tent-door, and bowed himself toward the ground, 
and said, my Lord, if now I have found favor in 
thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy 



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servant. L,et a little water, I pray you, be 
fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves, 
under the tree, and I will fetch a morsel of 
bread, and comfort ye your hearts, after that 
you shall pass on : for therefore are ye come to 
your servant. And they said, so do, as thou 
hast said. 

And Abraham hastened into the tent unto 
Sarah, and said, make ready quickly three 
measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes 
upon the hearth. 

And Abraham ran unto the herd, and 
fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto 
a young man, and he hastened to dress it. 

And he took butter, and milk, and the 
calf which he had dressed, and set it before 
them; and he stood by them under the tree and 
they did eat. 

And they said unto him, where is Sarah 
thy wife ? And he said, behold in the tent. 

And he said, I will certainty return unto 
thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah 
thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it 
in the tent door which was behind him. 

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and 
well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with 
Sarah after the manner of women. 

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, 
saying, after I am waxed old, shall I have 
pleasure, my Lord being old also ? 



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And the Lord said unto Abraham, where- 
fore did Sarah laugh, saying shall I of a surety 
bear a child, which am old ? 

Is any thing too hard for the Lord ? At the 
time appointed, I will return unto thee, accord- 
ing to the time of life, and Sarah shall a son. 

Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; 
for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou 
didst laugh. 

And the men rose up from hence and 
looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with 
them on the way. And the Lord said, shall I 
hide from Abraham that thing which I do; see- 
ing that Abraham shall surely become a great 
and mighty nation, and all the nations of the 
earth shall be blessed in him ? 

For I know him that he will command his 
children and his household after him, and they 
shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and 
judgment ; That the Lord may bring upon 
Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. 

And the Lord said, because the cry of Sodom 
and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is 
very grievous. 

I will go down, now and see whether they 
have done altogether according to the cry of it, 
which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. 

And the men turned their faces from thence, 
and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood 
yet before the Lord. 



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And Abraham drew near and said, wilt thou 
also destroy the righteous with the wicked ? 

Perad venture there be fifty righteous in the 
city; wilt thou also destroy and not spare the 
place for the fifty righteous that are therein ? 

That be far from thee to do after this 
manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked; 
and that the righteous should be as the wicked, 
that be far from thee : Shall not the judge of 
all the earth do right ? 

And the Lord said, if I find in Sodom fifty 
righteous within the City, then I will spare all the 
place for their sakes. And Abraham answered 
and said, behold now I have taken upon me to 
speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and 
ashes. Peradventure there shall lack five of the 
fifty righteous; wilt thou destroy all the city for 
the lack of five ? and he said, if I find there forty 
and five I will not destroy it. 

And he spake unto him yet again, and said 
peradventure there shall be forty found there ? 
And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. 
And he said unto him, Oh ! let not the Lord be 
angry, and I will speak : Peradventure there 
shall thirty be found there, and he said, I will 
not do it if I find thirty there. And he said, 
behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto 
the Lord. Peradventure there shall be twenty 
found there, and he said, I will not destroy it for 



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twenty's sake. And he said, Oh, let not the 
Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. 
Peradventure ten shall be found there, and he 
said I will not destroy it for ten's sake. 

And the Lord went his way, as soon as he 
had left communing with Abraham, and Abra- 
ham returned unto his place. 

In Genesis 19th, 1st to 5th, we read the 
following : 

Men and Angels — God's Messengers. 

And there came two angels to Sodom at 
even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And 
Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he 
bow 7 ed himself with his face towards the ground. 
And he said, behold now my lords, turn in I 
pray, into your servant's house and tarry all 
night and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up 
early, and go on your wa}^s; and they said, "Nay 
but we will abide in the street all night. And he 
pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in 
unto him, and entered into his house. And he 
made them a feast, and did bake unleavened 
bread, and they did eat. 

But before they lay down, the men of the 
city, even the men of Sodom compassed the house 
round, both old and young, all the people from 
every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and 
said unto him, where are the men which came 
in to thee this night ? bring them out unto us 
that we may know them. 



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Our purpose in bringing before the reader, 
these two chapters, is that we may remember how 
God sent his messengers to men. They were 
celestial beings; they were angels and they were 
men. 

Hebrew 13th. (1-2, v.) reads : Let brotherly 

love continue; be not forgetful to entertain 

strangers, for thereby some have entertained 
angels unaware. Daniel 10th (5-6 v.) reads : 

Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked , be- 
hold a certain man clothed in linen whose loins 
were girded with fine gold of Uphas. His body 
also was like beryl, and his face as the appear- 
ance of lightening and his eyes as lamps of fire, 
and his arms and his feet like in colour to 
polished brass, and the voice of his words like 
the voice of a multitude. Then again in Revela- 
tion 1 st, 9 v. we read : I, John who also am 
your brother and companion in tribulation and 
in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ. 
Also Rev. 2, 1 v. reads : Unto the Angel of the 
Church of Ephesus write. 

Note dear reader in the previous chapters, 
your attention was called to God's created beings 
in heaven, they were angels, while the created 
beings on earth were men. The 10th verse of 
the 19th chapter of Revelation reads : 

And I fell at his feet to worship, him; and 
he said unto me, see that thou do it not. I am 



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thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have 
the testimony of Jesus, worship God : for the 
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 

Thus, you see, that God's created beings in 
heaven (which were angels) acknowledged Gods 
created beings on earth as brethren. The 
earthly brother wanted to worship the heavenly 
brother, and he said, I am thy brother, do it 
not. 

Fallen Angels. 

But some of the created brothers in heaven 
rebelled against God, and he and his angels were 
cast out to the earth and he went to the created 
man which was his brother. 

The word man means both sexes, so he went 
to the weaker part of man, and by his deceiving 
spirit they disobeyed God. Thus, the devil had 
united the created beings on earth with the ones 
that were cast from heaven, and he becomes to be 
the prince of this world. 

But before man disobeyed, God had told him 
to multiply; the devil knew if he could get his 
spirit in man, then he would have all with one 
evil spirit the same as those who were already on 
earth that had disobeyed God. 

Birth of Cain and AbeL 

Therefore he looked for the time when Adam 
and Eve should bear children, as this was his 
great hope for his future plans; in it, was all the 
deceivableness of unrighteousness, 
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Adam knew his wife. She conceived and 
bare Cain and said, I have gotten a man from the 
Lord; and she again bare his brother Abel; but 
when Abel was born she did not say she had 
gotten a man from the Lord. 

Now God had respect for Abel's offering, but 
not for Cain's. And as God told Adam the day 
he disobeyed he should surely die. 

Now these were both created beings, but the 
fallen created being caused the death of the 
earthly created being, so that he, the devil, might 
carry out the plans of the Spirit. 

Here we have a similar case. Cain was the 
child of the devil, a deceiver. Abel was sincere, 
and God had respect for Abel. Now Abel was 
the only one on earth, that had respect for God. 
The devil knew he couldn't have this man 
worshipping God, for he was the God of this 
world. Thus the devil put in the heart of Cain 
to kill Abel, that he might get him out of the 
way then there would be no one on earth to call 
on God. 

So Cain killed Abel and God put a curse 
on him; and Cain went from the presence of the 
Lord, in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden, 
and there he knew his wife among those 
rebellious created beings which were cast to the 
earth. 



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This was the accomplishment of his plans, 
for he had disposed of his good brother by the 
spirit, and the evil spirit in Cain made him kill 
Abel. 

Now Cain was born in this world according 
to the way God said, but not with the spirit for 
he had the spirit of the devil. 

To receive the spirit is one thing to have it 
born in you is quite different. 

So when he accomplished his work of having 
one born with his spirit in him, he had accom- 
plished a great work to multiply this earth (of 
which he was the prince) with his kind, that had 
the spirit of the devil born in them. 

Cain was the only one, and he, the devil 
could and did send him into the land of Nod to 
those fallen angels that were cast out, that they 
might multiply, for they all would have the spirit 
born in them. This was a very important thing 
for the devil, for if his spirit had not have been 
born in man, man wouldn't have been deceived. 
Adam was not deceived, but the woman. But 
man, must have this deceiving spirit, so when 
Cain went among them and reared children, they 
all had this deceiving spirit. 

The one who has been deceived and acknowl- 
edges it, for that one there is a chance, but to 
him that is deceived and doesn't believe it he is 
worse off. 



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Man don't think he is deceived, at once he 
will say, God said, man wasn't deceived; and so 
he did; and he was not then; but think of this 
deceiver and his well laid plans that man might 
not see himself. 

God told woman, she was to be subject to 
her husband. But think of her dear reader, she 
is quick to forgive and quick to repent; how shall 
we account for this ? She listened to the devil, 
she believed and received, but man, it was born 
in him. Therefore it is hard to let go that which 
is born in him. But, when man receives the 
truth it is harder to take it from him, than it is 
from the woman. 

The 5th, 6th and 7th verses of 2nd Tim. 3rd 
chapter reads : Having a form of godliness but 
denying the power thereof : from such turn away 
for of this sort are they which creep into houses 
and lead captive silly women, laden with sins, 
lead away with divers lust, ever learning and 
never able to come to the knowledge of truth. 

The devil knew if he could get the deceiving 
spirit born in him, he would have such a long 
struggle to come through before he could see that 
he was deceived. 

The Deceivableness of Unrighteousness. 

In the 14th chapter of Prov. 12th verse we 
find : There is a way which seemeth right unto 
man: but the end thereof are the ways of death. 



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Thus you see, it seemeth right, but is wrong. 
Now this is the deceivableness of unrighteousness 
which puts in man the cause that makes him act 
against God. 

Note that I said, man would have a long 
struggle before he could see himself that he was 
deceived. First he must obey the command- 
ments, this is hard; to love thy neighbor as thy- 
self. Now man says you cannot keep the ten 
commandments, and he is trying to do away with 
some of them. 

But dear reader, the deceiving spirit has 
made man disobey God, and his deceivableness 
is greater than the woman's for he is deceived 
and does not see it. 

Now God would not tell us to love our 
neighbor as our ourselves if it could not be done, 
but the devil has a counterfeit for everything 
that God has for man. 

The Counterfeit he has for love is fascination. 
We pick up the daily papers and read of some 
young man who has killed a woman because she 
refused to become his bride because he loved her. 
This is not love, this is that deceiving spirit which 
he has received, and he calls it love. Romans 
13 chap. 10 v. says, L,ove worketh no ill to his 
neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the 
law. 

Let us .see if we can love our neighbor as 
ourselves. 



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First, let us see if man loves himself. Since 
we are told that love worketh no ill to his neigh- 
bor let us see if we work ill to ourselves. 

Now reader, if I want to say something 
about you to harm you, I have hurt myself first 
for it has'nt reached you yet. The deceivable- 
ness of unrighteousness has told me to do it. If 
I love myself I will not do it. Man must obey 
the holy ten commandments, for this is the 
foundation and the gates of hell shall not pre- 
vail against it. 

Thus he builds his christian structure. 
This stumbling stone and rock of offence which 
man stumbles at, is the word being disobedient, 
found in ist. Peter 2 chap. 8 v. If man will 
build upon this foundation, then he will know 
what is meant in the 3rd chap, of Galatians 24- 
26 v. Wherefore the law was our school-master, 
to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justi- 
fied by faith, but after that faith is come, we are 
no longer under a school-master. 

For ye are the children of God by faith in 
Christ Jesus. Now then we are up to where 
Jesus shows us who the Anti-Christ is, and how 
he has deceived those who have not built upon 
his Father's commandments. But to those who 
have obeyed, the law presents them to Jesus, and 
Jesus destroys the cause that made them act 
against God his Father. 



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And I am speaking what I know. I want 
to bring to your minds this great fact, that the 
office of the Anti-Christ is to oppose Jesus Christ. 

It is true, if men will do his will the} 7 shall 
know of the doctrine. (John 7-17.) Do you 
know why they left off obeying the fourth com- 
mandment? The keeping of the seventh day as 
the Sabbath day ? If so, well. If not, listen 
to what the Spirit ot God says to you through 
the Spirit. (Bear in mind the Anti-Christ is to 
oppose Jesus Chris!:.) And he takes this way to 
effect the mission of Jesus, for he came to redeem 
man. 

Man has already the deceivableness of un- 
righteousness in him. Now the devil turns to 
man and tells him as Jesus has come to redeem 
you, you are to honor him by keeping the 
day he rose from the tomb, for God has given 
all things over into his hands, and by keeping 
the first day of the week and call it Sunday, the 
Lord's Sabbath, you will be honoring both the 
Father and the Son. But this is that deceiving 
Spirit, for Jesus did not come to do away with 
the law but to fulfill it. 

Hebrews 4th, 8v. reads : For if Jesus had 
given them rest then would , he not afterward 
have spoken of another day. It would be well 
if you would read the whole chapter and see how 
Paul defends the Seventh Day Sabbath. 



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If woman is to be subject to man then let 

him be careful, for his deceivableness is greater 
than the woman's for she received it, and man 
has it born in him. 

Sacrifice for Righteousness Sake. 

It is very hard to sacrifice that which is a 
part of us, when it is in us. The person who 
has inward trouble hardly consents to an opera- 
tion till the physician tells him there is no hope of 
life without it. So the devil knows for man to 
consent to the sword of the spirit to cut within, is 
a hard thing. Then again there are some people 
that have inward trouble, and they go to the 
doctor, he diagnoses the case, and he says, " you 
will never have any trouble, " but the man says, 
" I want it out," while I may not have any 
serious trouble with it, yet it does'nt belong 
there and it must come out. This is the man 
seeing himself. But, see where he has to go 
before he is capable of leading woman. Then 
he has in him the truth, as woman has'nt, but 
man will present it to woman; but without this 
it will be as Paul says, of this sort are they, 
which creep into houses and lead captive silly 
women, laden with sin, lead away with divers 
lusts, ever learning and never able to come to the 
knowledge of the truth. 



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Esau and Jacob. 

While writing this book the great question 
of Esau and Jacob came in my mind and I fell 
upon my knees and prayed the Lord to make it 
plain to me. And I said I would give one tenth 
of all I had to the Lord. A day passed, and it 
was shown to me that Jacob offered the tenth of 
all he had in the way of atonement for taking his 
brother's blessing, tor Esau had said he would 
kill him. Now Jacob wanted to return home 
but was afraid. This is why he offered one 
tenth of all he had. But this did not appease the 
wrath of Esau, nor did it keep him from killing 
Jacob, but Jacob prevailed with God. Money 
given is one of the things man thinks will help 
him with God, but it avails nothing. We must 
give money for the Gospel's sake, for the love 
we have for it, and sometimes it takes more than 
one tenth. 

The Carnal ordinances made by man, are 
not the best things to follow. For instance ; 
Ananias and Sapphira had possessions and 
promised a certain portion to the Lord, but did 
not give it. And Peter said to them, it was 
yours, why did you lie to the Spirit? So let us 
be careful how we give, and give freely, for God 
loveth a cheerful giver. 

Now I will give you the great mystery of 
Esau and Jacob as God has revealed it to his 
servant. Beginning at the 21st verse of the 

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25th chapter of Genesis, we read, and Isaac en- 
treated the Lord for his wife, because she was 
barren. And the Lord was entreated of him. 
And Rebekah his wife conceived and the chil- 
dren struggled together within her. And she 
said, if it be so why am I thus ? And she went 
to inquire of the Lord. And the Lord said unto 
her, two nations are in thy womb, and two 
manner of people shall be separated from thy 
bowels. And the one people shall be stronger 
than the other people, and the elder shall serve 
the younger. 

Reader, I hope to carry your minds along to 
some facts. When God created Adam the first 
man, he disobeyed God, but the second man, 
the Lord from heaven, he obeyed in all things. 
When Eve bare Cain she said she had gotten a 
man from the Lord, but he was a child of the 
devil, and when Abel was born there was a child 
of God, and to keep the elder from serving the 
younger the elder killed the younger, which 
was Jesus. When Cain saw God had respect for 
Abel and not for him, he knew he would have to 
serve him, so he killed him. Thus the elder was 
determined he would not serve the younger in 
both cases, in the crucifying of Jesus and the 
killing of Abel 

But the promise was to Abraham and his 
seed. Note how careful Abraham was to in- 
struct his servant not to take to his son Isaac, a 



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wife from among the Canaanites, for they were 
not of the promise, but were of the created be- 
ings which were cast out of heaven. But he 
wanted one that was born under the promise for 
his son's wife. 

So you see there were two nations and two 
manner of people then. When Isaac's wife con- 
ceived, then began the stuggle in the womb. 
She asked the Lord about it and He told her 
there were two manner of people, and the one 
people should serve the other. 

But do you see the same two nations 
struggling from righteous Abel to Jesus ? Here 
we have the promise of Abraham, through his 
son Isaac beginning with a struggle. The same 
two manner of people, is in all people. But the 
one shall be stronger than the other. 

Now let us remember who is the child of 
the promise and the seed of Abraham. They 
are those who do as he did ; believe God and 
keep his Commandments : And this people will 
be stronger than the other people. 

Note, dear reader, the first man, all the way 
down to where you bring it to yourself. Do you 
not see two people struggling in you ? Do you 
not see a Jacob taking hold on Esau's heel in 
you ? How T often we find in us something hold- 
ing the evil from controlling us. This is the 
same spirit in all men. 



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When Jesus came to redeem the first man, 
they killed him, for they would not have him to 
rule over them, as it was with Cain and Abel 
but after Cain killed Abel the struggle ceased, 
for there were none on earth but one people and 
none had the respect for God ; for Cain had gone 
from the presence of the Lord to those fallen 
Angels. 

There he multiplied and built a city and 
called it after his first son whose name was 
Enoch. And, there were none calling on the 
Lord. 

Gen. 4-25 v. reads : And Adam knew his 
wife again, and she bare a son and called his 
name Seth, for God said, she hath appointed me 
another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. 
And to Seth there was born a son, and he called 
his name Enos. Then men began to call upon 
the name of the Lord. This is the first to have 
respect for God since Cain killed Abel. Then 
the next important one was Enoch who walked 
with God, then came Noah who also walked with 
God. 

Through all the generations on down, God 
had his connecting link to Abraham and Isaac, 
to where the promise was to be fulfilled in Isaac 
and Rebekah. 

The first man had killed the second man 
Abel and Jesus. When Cain killed Abel there 



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was but one people for he had gone among the 
disobedient angels, thus they multiplied the 
earth with one people and they were the first 
people. 

After a hundred years God gave them Seth, 
and unto Seth was born Enos. 

The first two verses of the 6th Chapter of 
Genesis says, And it came to pass when men 
began to multiply on the face of the earth and 
daughters were born unto them, that the sons 
of God saw the daughters of men that they were 
fair; and they took them wives of all which they 
choose. 

Now the first man killed the second man, 
but now they have come together, for they were 
fair to look upon. Then they bare to them chil- 
dren, but these were not like the children born 
to Cain and the cast out beings from heaven; for, 
they have a different father, their father is a son 
of God, so you see how the first man and the 
second man and two manner of people came 
together. 

But note, there isn't any promise yet. 
When these began to multiply, they became 
desperately wicked. Gen. 6th. 5th. v. reads : 
That every imagination of the thoughts of his 
heart was only evil continually, and it repented 
the Lord that he had made man on the earth. 



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But there was a time when he didn't have a 
man, now he has but he is defiled. But think of 
the wonderful patience of God with man; though 
man is far away, see what a long distance to 
bring him back; but we see the man coming 
through the promise ; it looks dim, but he is 
coming. 

Thus we see through Jacob and Rebekah, 
those same people that refused to let the second 
people rule them; but, the second people are 
holding on to the first people and stopping their 
progress. This is Jacob holding Esau's heel. 
The second man has gotten his hand on the first 
man, and he will conquer him, for God has said, 
the elder should serve the younger. 

" And when her days to be delivered were 
fulfilled behold there were twins in her womb. 
And the first came out red all over like an hairy 
garment, and they called his name Esau. After 
that came his brother out, and his hand took 
hold on Esau's heel. " 

Now reader, the first man has always 
triumphed over the second man, but though he 
comes into this world first, the second man has 
a hold on him and he keeps that hold on him, 
not only on his heel, but watch him and see how 
he brings him down. 

"And the boys grew, and Esau was a 
cunning hunter, a man of the field and Jacob 



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was a plain man dwelling in tents. And Isaac 
loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison. 
But Rebekah loved Jacob, and Jacob sod pottage 
and Esau came from the field and was faint, and 
Esau said to Jacob, feed me I pray thee with 
that same red pottage for I am faint. Therefore 
was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, sell 
me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, 
behold I am at the point to die, what profit shall 
this birthright do to me ? And Jacob said, swear 
to me this day, and he swore unto him, and sold 
his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave 
Esau bread and pottage of lentils, and he did eat 
and drink and rose up and went his way ; thus 
Esau despised his birthright. 

Now, Jacob's getting Esau's birthright was 
a legal transaction, and this makes him heir of 
all that is to come to the firstborn. Therefore, 
when Isaac wanted to bless Esau his first born, 
Jacob only got what belonged to him ; the sec- 
ond man took hold on the first man and the first 
man was to serve him. This is what the first 
man refused to do. Thus we see this was 
carried out with Cain and Abel and it was in- 
tended by Esau, but Jacob got a hold on him, 
for the promise was that the elder should serve 
the younger. 

Now Adam was not deceived but he did 
what Eve told him and she had received her in- 
structions from his fallen brother. But they did 



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not know to what depths they had fallen, for in 
it was the killing of their son by their son. 
Esau was not deceived, but to what depth it 
meant to sell his birthright he had not seen, for 
in so doing he would have to serve his brother 
Jacob. 

In Eve's instructions to Adam, lay all the 
plans to multiply the world with sin ; and in 
the instructions of Rebekah to Jacob lay all the 
plans to multiply the world with righteousness. 

Now you remember after Cain killed Abel, 
there was but one people and that was the first 
people, and the second people took wives among 
the first people and bore to them children. See 
how God is bringing the first man back by the 
second man. Think of righteous Abel how he 
represents the second man. Though the first 
man killed him, he is still my brother and I will 
go after him. See the spirit, of righteous Abel 
coming after the wicked spirit of Cain, though 
he has killed the body. 

But Jesus says, the flesh profiteth nothing ; 
it is the spirit that quickeneth. So the righteous 
spirit of Abel takes on another body; then his 
spirit is in his body that is controlled by the 
devil. As the spirit of the devil got in man's 
body and made him do his biddings, so the spirit 
or righteous Abel gets into those first people 
which had the spirit of the devil born in them. 



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Now we see the sons of God going after 
their fallen brothers and how they humble them- 
selves to reach them and get hold of them. They 
humbled themselves and went among those first 
people which were the disobedient ones, that 
were cast out of heaven and their seed, and took 
to themselves wives. Thus the first man and 
the second man come together, and two manners 
of people. Now the second man has him bring- 
ing him back, they are on their way back to 
earth, but they are struggling, Jacob has his hand 
holding him. This is Esau and Jacob by the 
wonderful wisdom of God, for the salvation of 
man. By having the voice of the spirit we are 
able to follow the teachings of God, that we may 
discern between the two spirits. 

Now the deceiving spirit makes man hear 
by feeling, and he acts, and he is confident be- 
cause he feels, but we must be very careful how 
we hear. If we do right, we will feel right, but 
this is accompanied with knowledge. 

And when Isaac said, the voice is Jacob's, 
but the hands are Esau's then and there feeling 
had done its work to the sorrow of the old man. 
And so it will be to many who hear and know it 
is the voice of God, but will trust in feeling. 
Oh ! Alan ; Know Thyself and take heed how 
you hear. 

Luke 8th, 18 verse, reads : Take heed 
therefore how ye hear; for whosoever hath, to 

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him shall be given, and whosoever hath not, 
from him shall be taken even that which he 
seemeth to have. 

One night I closed up the store and pulled 
the door to ; when about a half block away, 
there came a voice speaking to the inner man, 
telling me my store door was open and I had 
better go back and fasten it, for some one would 
get in and steal. I stopped ; something said, 
" don't do it. " But the voice said, " you know 
that door is hard to fasten. " I think I stopped 
two or three times; at last I said, "I don't 
care, I won't go back. " Then it said, if you 
want to enjoy yourself where you are going, you 
had better go back, then it will be off your 
mind, but I would not go back. I was gone 
about three hours, and when I returned, I found 
my store door fastened. Now I mention this to 
show you what the scriptures mean when it 
says, "take heed how ye hear. This is a 
temptation but man will not see it as such, until 
the law has been his schoolmaster to bring him 
to Jesus, then he is under the law of the spirit. 

Paul says, Ephesians 6-12, For we wrestle 
not against flesh and blood but against prin- 
cipalities, against powers, against rulers of dark- 
ness of this world, against spiritual wickedness 
in high places. 



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Now this is quite different from what Paul 
says in Romans 7th, 22, 23 verses : ' ' For I de- 
light in the law of God after the inward man, 
but I see another law in my members, warring 
against the law of my mind and bringing me 
into captivity to the law of sin which is in my 
members. '* 

The law of sin is the law we must break. 
A man breaks the law of God to serve the law 
of sin, so he must break the law of sin to serve 
the law of God. Thus Paul says, We wrestle 
not against flesh and blood, but against princi- 
palities and powers, against the rulers of dark- 
ness of this world, and against spiritual wicked- 
ness in high places. He had to break the law of 
sin, and he had been obedient to the law of 
God, and this had brought him to the law of the 
spirit. 

The law of sin in our members was to keep 
us from obeying the law of God, for the devil 
knew if man came to know the law of God he 
would be his servant. Now laws are made for 
the betterment of man's condition, and when man 
knows the law, he will be obedient to it for he 
wants his condition bettered. 

When Paul speaks of spiritual wickedness 
in high places, he knows he is fighting in the 
spiritual law, and it is up high, and man will 
have to reach high to get it. The devil knows 
if man gets the law of the spirit then he is done, 



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for the second verse of the 8th chapter of Romans 
reads, for the law of the spirit of life in Christ 
Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and 
death ; to get this, you will have to fight in the 
spiritual law as you did in the natural law. 

Ycu will have to break the sinful spiritual 
law. What is the sinful spiritual law ? The 
sinful spiritual law is evil imaginations. 

2nd. Cor. 10-5 reads thus : Casting down 
imaginations and every high thing that exalteth 
itself against the knowledge of God, and bring- 
ing into captivity every thought to the obedience 
of Christ. You will have to fight for it, as you 
did in the other laws. 

The devil will make you think many things, 
and he will bring many things to your mind ; 
you will think they are right, but they will be 
wrong. 

When man admits he has been deceived it is 
better for him ; but the devil wants to keep this 
from him. 

The law of sin makes the body act, and 
when it fails to act voluntarily then it will attack 
you in the night when you are asleep for satan is 
determined to control the body, for it is his. 
He will have you do all kind of things in the 
body, when you are asleep. You will look at 
things you would not if you were awake, and you 
will enjoy a great many of the things the spirit 



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brings to you, that you would not enjoy were 
you awake. How shall we account for this? 
Why reader, you want to do it. It is in the 
spirit. The natural law forbids you, you want 
to be obedient and you are obedient to the natu- 
ral law. Now it is the spiritual law that puts the 
natural law in force, and when one refuses to 
obey the things of the natural law, then the 
spiritual law, which gives the natural law its 
forces, takes the man in hand and forces him. 
The spiritual law takes him, and makes him 
enjoy or distresses him, just as the law of sin 
does to man when he is awake. 

But, there is relief even from him taking 
advantage of us ; for the spirit of the Son of God 
comes to our relief, and He shows us if we will 
fight in the day and not enjoy and think about 
the things he brings to us in the night, He will 
protect us when we are asleep. But if you 
enjoy them, this shows that you like this law. 
If you will break this law the same as you did 
the other, then the spiritual law of Christ will 
protect you in the spiritual law while you sleep 
the same as when you were protected from the 
natural law awake, for this destroys the cause 
that makes the act. 

Romans 8-28 says : And we know that all 
things work together for good to them that love 
God, to them who are the called according to his 
purpose. 



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God's Dealing With Man. 

God's way of dealing with man is past find- 
ing out, and his love for man is never fully 
known until he has accomplished his work in 
him. If He would let you know, you would re- 
fuse, and as Jesus said to his disciples, what I do 
thou knowest not now; but thou shall know 
hereafter. (John 13-7.) When he has worked 
out a problem in you, then he gives it to you, 
for it is yours. Oh : how glad you are for it, 
but how you refused it ; but he kept right on. 

You will say, after I get the victory over 
this, I shall not ask the L,ord any more, what He 
will have me do: but as soon as he has worked 
out his plan in you, and gives it to you, then 
you are so glad you will find yourself saying, 
"Lord what will thou have me to do? " then he 
shows you, and Oh how sorry you are for it is 
harder than the one you've just come through. 
But, you say, I must be obedient. So you pray 
and fight until you have overcome then he gives 
it to you and you are glad. 

Now reader, man has in him from the begin- 
ning to the end evil passions that must be 
worked out, for we are told in the scriptures to 
work out our soul's salvation with fear and tremb- 
ling before God, for it is God that worketh in 
you." Now I could tell you of all my trials and 
temptations one by one from my conversion until 
now, and tell how I yielded and how I conquered. 



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All things are lawful, but all things are not ex- 
pedient, and false modesty is not prepared for it. 
He who has been lifted out of them sees beauty 
even in them all, for it is the work of God bring- 
ing his precious jewels out of the mire and filth 
and dirt, and making them shine out his great 
glory to his praise. 

My Personal Experiences. 

I am now going to tell you about some of the 
wonderful things of God. 

Before I was converted, I was always re- 
ligiously inclined. The devil made me believe if 
I ever got sick, it would not take me long to get 
converted because I was not very bad. After I 
was converted a little over a year, one night I be- 
came very sick. I was at my boarding house. 
I did not think I could live until morning. 
Something said "Call" I said "No." Then 
something said "pray" I said I do not feel like 
praying, but T know everything is alright with me: 
then all my sickness was gone and I was well. 
The pains were bad, but he had put the joy and 
confidence in me for himself. 

Another time I was sick and had been to the 
doctor and received medicine, and something said, 
"You are a man who believes in God, why not 
ask him to cure you ? " I went up stairs and 
asked God to cure me, and I came down a well 
man. 



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About three years after the death of my wife, 
I nearly died on my feet, for I was going about 
aud the doctor was attending me. One day I 
went to his office and he said, "get home, lie 
down and be quiet, your temperature is one 
hundred and four. I will come down to see you. ' ' 
I did not have far to go. I laid down and he 
came. The next day I was out, I went to his 
office and he advised me to many. I had no mind 
for that, so he did not seem to do me any good. 

I went to another physician. He examined 
me and asked me if I had been to any doctor. I 
said "yes." He asked me if he told me what 
my ailment was, I said "no. " Then he told 
me what my trouble was and said, you should 
not have been sick more than three days. He 
said, I am going to give you three Capsules, go 
home get in bed and take one, an hour after- 
ward you will be sick enough to die, but you 
will not die. The next day take another but it 
will not be so bad, and the following day come to 
my office. When I went he asked me how I felt, 
I said "alright, only a little weak." He said, 
"Raikes, a man built like you ought to live a 
hundred years, if somebody didn't shoot him, 
and you are discreet in your habits too." But, 
he said, "if you want health you must get 
married," I said, "No." He replied, "I know 
man, I have studied him, ' ' and he gave me a very 
fine lecture on man. He knew me and he was 
earnest in what he said, and I believe he was 



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right. But I did none of the things he advised, 
because I didn't think it was right for me to do 
them. And I never have done any of them and 
I never will. That has been about eleven years 
ago. Now as I have said man has in him from 
the beginning to the end the sin he received in 
the beginning; but it is brought out when Jesus 
destroys the cause that made the act. But man 
don't know. Jesus says, "what I do thou 
knoweth not now, but thou shall know hereafter. " 
These words were not for the twelve only, but to 
his diciples of to-day also. 

After I had this great temptation, (for it was 
one) and health was a nice thing to have, I have 
never been sick since. Then it was given to me to 
understand, that when man disobeyed God, then 
all of God's creation changed. All nature changed 
against man to his destruction. Man don't 
believe he has been deceived, therefore man takes 
his intellectual knowledge, makes his scientific 
researches and they bring the answer according 
to his knowledge from a scientific standpoint. 
But, when it comes to the man spoken of in 
Romans 8, 4 verse "That the righteousness of the 
law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after 
the flesh but after the spirit, his intellectual 
knowledge from a scientific standpoint when 
put on that man, won't w 7 ork. So when this 
was made plain to me how thankful I was. 



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I will now tell you some things I refused to 
write, but one must be obedient and not mind 
what people will think or say, when you are 
depending on God for what you are to write. 

One day while writing this book, I saw a 
man go by ; I called to him and we talked about 
different things. When he went I started to 
write but I could not, all my thoughts were gone 
and I could not tell why. Then it was made 
plain to me how I had turned away the voice of 
the spirit to talk to man, and that I would not 
have treated a man with such contempt as to stop 
talking to him to converse with another without 
even asking to be excused. When this was 
made plain, I saw myself and how sorry I was. 
I got upon my knees and asked forgiveness and 
promised never to do it again. 

So I must be true to the voice that opens out 
and gives to me his golden treasures. Now I 

will tell of the things I thought to hold back. 

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Three years after the death of my wife I had 
all kinds of trials. The day she died she said to 
me, "John you will have it hard, but stand up 
and be a man." I have stood up and have not 
yielded to the evil powers for I said I would die 
before I would yield. So when one is determined 
to be true to God, the devil will put his forces 
against you in many ways, and by people you 
wouldn't think, and sometimes they do not think 
they are working for him. 









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After the death of my wife I would come 
home from work, remain there reading my Bible. 
People tried to get me to keep company but I 
would not. I'd go to church but would not go 
home with any ladies nor call on any, though 
often asked. 

There was a married woman that use to 
come to the house when my wife lived, who 
tried to get me to . go in company and named 
over some nice women, but I paid no attention 
to what she said more than to listen, but I be- 
lieve she was trying to do what she thought was 
best for me. She may have thought I worried 
about my wife, but I didn't. The very morn- 
ing, or rather day, my wife died the room was 
full of people and she said something to me ; it 
pleased me. I laughed and so did she. Then 
the word went out that John Raikes laughed at 
his wife's dying. 

Now they did not know, for she had grown 
so weak she could not speak, and the people had 
left the room. Some went down stairs and some 
in other rooms. She tried to say something, I 
put my ear to her mouth to catch the words, and 
she said, "ask the Lord to strengthen my 
speech, I want to say something. Upon my 
knees I asked the Lord to return her speech and 
he did. She talked so that the people down 
stairs heard her plainly and came up to see what 
had happened to her. 



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She was telling me something, they all 
heard, but it was with their natural ears, so did 
I, but I heard with my spiritual ears too, this 
made me laugh and so did she, but the people 
did not understand and said I laughed at her 
dying. 

Now the people were interested in me and 
said, " Brother Raikes, why don't you ask the 
Lord for a wife ? I said I have given myself up 
to the Lord and it wouldn't be right for me to ask 
Him for a wife when I have given myself to him 
and I know he will give me that which is best 
for me, and if he wants me to have a wife and 
shows me the one, I will be glad, but if he does 
not I never will have one, but I will be true. 

Now the devil was determined I should not 
carry these things out so I had to go through all 
kinds of trials, but I have been true. What he 
has committed to me to keep I have kept it, 
though it has been hard to do so. 

One day coming home from work, I was 
thinking of the different women who had tried 
to conquer me, and how nice looking some of 
them were, and I was chastised for thinking 
about those things, and Oh ! how it hurt me. I 
said, " here I am, I have no wife and I wont go 
after women ; there are men that have wives and 
go after other women besides, and I am chastised 
for thinking about them, and before I could con- 
trol myself tears were falling down my face, but 



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I came to think it was for my good, for the 
scripture tells us, whom the Lord loveth he 
chasteneth. The nth verse of the 12th chapter 
of Hebrews reads : Now no chastening for the 
present seemeth to be joyous but grievous : 
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable 
fruit of righteousness unto them which are exer- 
cised thereby. 

Now this was one of the best or in other 
words it was the best experience I ever had, 
when I got down to reasoning with the Lord, I 
could see it was best for me. Then I began to 
fight my thoughts, for it will make one fight to 
overcome them, but I did. One day several 
months after it came to me, where are your 
thoughts of women ? I said, that is so. Then I 
began to worry about my condition, but it was 
brought to me; you are just the same man as 
ever but the lust has been destroyed, and Oh ! 
how happy I was, for I had asked the Lord if there 
wasn't some way I could get through this world 
without these terrible fights, if so I would like to 
have it, if not I would fight all my days but I 
would never yield. 

You remember I said we have in us from the 
beginning to the end, but it has to be worked 
out. When the Lord works out a problem in 
you he gives it to you, for it is yours and you 
are glad you followed his teachings. 



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About a year after this experience I was 
going to work one morning late in the fall, about 
six o'clock going across a field a voice asked me 
if I was willing to forsake women the balance of 
my days. I said, "yes Lord, anything to the 
glory of God." And the blessing came down 
on me so powerfully I couldn't control myself. 
Then He began showing me the great mystery 
of multiplying the earth, for he had 'told man to 
multiply, but now the earth was being multiplied 
with those that were born in sin. 

But if one will follow him along he will 
bring him up to where he will ask him if he is 
willing to forsake women the balance of his days. 
Now this is not a demand, but is just as if some 
one would say to you, are you willing to do a 
certain thing ? You would say, yes, if it will do 
you any good. And you do it. 

One would think it would be a hard thing to 
forsake women the balance of their days, but it 
isn't, for see where he has brought you: to 
where the lust has been cast out, for the spiritual 
law has destroyed the cause that made you act. 
In 2nd Peter ist, 4 v. we read: Whereby are 
given unto us exceeding great and precious 
promises: that by these ye might be partakers of 
the divine nature, having escaped the corruption 
that is in the world through lust. So you have 
come through the corruption which is tempta- 
tions and the lust that is in you. For it is hard 



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when the corruption presents itself to you, and 
the lust that is in you wants it, but when you 
pass through them then you are partakers of the 
divine nature. 

The True and a False God. 

In the 3rd verse of the 17th chapter of John 
we read : And this is life eternal that they 
might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus 
Christ whom thou hast sent." These words of 
Jesus to his disciples implies that there is danger 
of man following a God but not the true God. 
A Christ but not the true Christ. The only way 
man can know the true God is by keeping the 
commandments, thus he becomes to know God. 
For what power can stop you from doing the 
thing in the flesh but the true God. But the 
false God has his kingdom set up in man, and he 
makes all the things in man turn against the in- 
structions that God gives to man through his 
commandments. For he has got to receive them 
before the evil powers can be bound, thus you 
see how the false God has man, but as Jesus says, 
if man will do his will, he will know of the 
doctrine. Now, reader, let us settle it within 
ourselves, that if we do not keep the qpmmand- 
ments we cannot know the doctrine for this is what 
presents us to Jesus, and if you haven't this, then 
you have accepted the false God, and he presents 
you to the false Christ, which is the Anti-Christ, 
and the Anti-Christ works within you, and 



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should you want to get away you would have a 
very hard time, for it is the spirit that quickeneth. 

Do you know why so many people, and even 
preachers reflect on the old patriarchs and the 
things they did? It is because they haven't 
built on the commandments. They criticise 
Abraham for getting his wife's maid with child 
w r hen God has said, he was the Father of the 
Faithful. 

Now reader this was the beginning of the 
Christian era, and where there is no law there is 
no transgression. 

There was no law against it then, if there 
had been Abraham would not have done it, for 
he was a faithful man and was honored as such 
by God. I think when I hear them speak of the 
dear patriarchs, what a shame it is, and I feel like 
defending them. 

I heard a preacher say in his sermon, "Do 
not be like Moses, just as you are about to enter 
into rest, do some sin and be kept out, like Moses 
was kept from going to the promised land." O, 
how it grieved me: when God said Moses was 
faithful in all his house. Now reader, this is be- 
cause they failed to keep the commandments and 
do not know the true God, and this is the teach- 
ing of the false God. Jesus says, ye do greatly 
err in not knowing the scriptures. 



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Now Moses came to represent the law, and 
the 3rd v. of the 8th chapter of Romans says, for 
what the law could not do, in that it was weak, 
through the flesh, God sending his own son in 
the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned 
sin in the flesh." So, if Moses had not had some 
weakness, how could he have represented the law? 
Moses acted his part like a man of God upon the 
great stage of life, and upon this stage every 
man has his part to play. If they will be as 
faithful as Abraham and Moses and those old 
patriarchs in playing their part, that God may 
come and take them to himself as he did those 
faithful ones. 

Now I call your attention to John 17-3. 
"That they may know the only true God, and 
Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." 

Mark 9-2, we read, "Jesus taketh with him 
Peter, and James and John, and leadeth them up 
into an high mountain apart by themselves : and 
he was transfigured before them. And his 
raiment became shining exceeding white as snow, 
so that no fuller on earth can white them. And 
there appeared unto them Elias with Moses ; and 
they were talking with Jesus. And Peter 
answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good 
for us to be here ; and let us make three taber- 
nacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one 
for Elias. For he wist not what to say : for they 
were sore afraid. And there was a cloud that 
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overshadowed them : and a voice came out of 
the cloud saying, This is my beloved Son, hear 
him. " 

Jesus says in John 18-8, " I have given unto 
them the words which thou gavest me : and they 
have received them, and have know r n surely that 
I came out from thee, and have believed that 
thou did'st send me. 

Now Jesus took the three upon the mountain 
that they might meet and hear the ones, that he 
had been instructing them about, the King of 
the law and the King of the prophecy. These 
they had received and Jesus had told the Father 
so. Now God said, this is my beloved Son, hear 
him. Note how these men had to come along to 
know God, for he had them to recognize the law 
and the prophets, then to call their attention to his 
son telling them to hear him. Romans 3-20 
reads : Therefore by the deeds of the law, there 
shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the 
law is the knowledge of sin. But now the right- 
eousness of God without the law is manifested, 
being witnessed by the law and the prophets. 

The law and the prophets are looking and 
seeing the righteousness of God going on. Is it 
going on in you, or have you the anti-Christ 
righteousness which is without obeying the ten 
commandments ? If you are struggling in the 
commandments, well, for then you believe; but 
those who do not believe cannot keep them, be- 
cause they obey the anti-Christ commandments. 









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Is the Bible the Word of God. 

Do you know why most people call the Bible 
the word of God ? 

Since we read in the ist verse of the ist 
Chapter of John. In the beginning was the Word 
and the Word was with God and the Word was 
God. In the 14th verse oi the same chapter we 
find: The Word was made flesh and dwelt 
among us. In the 6th Chapter 63rd verse Jesus 
says it is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh 
profiteth nothing, the word that I speak unto 
you, they are spirit and they are life. 

Nowhere in the bible do we find where it is 
called the Word of God, but it is called the 
Scripture. Jesus says, search the Scriptures, for 
in them ye think ye have eternal life, he does not 
say, search the word of God, but he does say, my 
word is spirit and my word is life. The bible is 
commonly called the word of God, but it is paper 
and ink, the same is formed in different shapes, 
which gives to us the intellectual knowledge we 
have received from wisdom, but if we will read 
the scriptures and believe and do the things that 
we read in them then we will know the word of 
God. 

In Ps. 51-10, David says, Create in me a 
clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit 
within me. This will give life, for this is to the 
spiritual body, what the natural food is to the 



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natural body ; the natural food keeps the body 
active in the things of this world, so the word of 
God will keep your spiritual body active for the 
world to come. In man you see life, this is the 
life that is spoken of in the scriptures ; the spirit 
quickeneth and makes the mortal body be sub- 
ject to the spiritual body. And if Christ be in 
you the body is dead because of sin, but the 
spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the 
spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead 
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the 
dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his 
spirit that dwelleth in you. Rom. 8-10 

Now reader, man calls the bible the word of 
God, is it because he lacks intellectual knowl- 
edge? No, I was talking to a man who had 
been through two colleges about the bible not 
being the word of God, and he said " Raikes, 
will you contradict the learned?" I said, "I 
will in that for I know. ' ' We talked on and 
he said, " you are talking psychology. " " No, 
I do not know anything about psychology, " he 
replied, "you do." Well, I said, if this is 
psychology then you do not know it. He said, 
" this is what we learn when we first enter col- 
lege. " I said, you learn that you may know, 
but you do not know, it yet. So the scriptures 
teach us that we may know the word of God ; 
and we may know the scriptures and never 
know the word of God because we fail to keep 
the commandments. 



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In the 6th chapter of Hebrews beginning 
at the 3rd verse. And this will we do, if God per- 
mit. For it is impossible for those who were 
once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly 
gift, and were made partakers of the Holy 
Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, 
and the powers of the world to come, if they 
shall fall away, to renew them again into re- 
pentance ; seeing they crucify to themselves the 
Son of God afresh, and put him to an open 
shame. In the 18 verse of the same chapter we 
read, that by two immutable things, in which it 
was impossible for God to lie, I call your at- 
tention to where it is impossible for God to lie, 
yet ii man lies he will punish him. This seems 
hard for God to punish man for lying, when it is 
impossible for him to lie. 

Unrighteous criticism on the bible makes 
man disbelieve it, and how careful we ought to 
to be, to defend it, and he who has purchased 
our pardon. If we do not do it, who will? for 
man is to represent him here, and we are our 
brother's keeper. 

We read the scriptures, and we have his 
word in us, so we must defend our God, for he 
defends us. His exalted knowledge in righteous- 
ness and goodness forbids it and he cannot lie. 
Now if man has been a partaker of the Holy 
Ghost and has tasted the good word of God, and 
the power of the world to come, it would be a 



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very hard thing for him to fall away, for see 
where he has been brought from ; for he has in 
him the knowledge of sin and righteousness that 
has cleansed him from sin, and this has destroyed 
the cause that made him act ; so you see it 
would be impossible to renew him, for he has 
crucified the Son of God afresh and put him to 
an open shame. 

Now what is meant by putting him to an 
open shame ? The man who has followed the 
teachings of Jesus, the same is known of him, 
and the people will believe in him, though they 
may tell you they do not ; but, when that man 
falls away, the people see it, they will say at 
once "if that man is going back, it is useless 
for me to try, for I know that man : if ever there 
was a christian he was. " So he has put Jesus 
to an open shame and has crucified him afresh. 

I have often been asked why I did not go 
ground more, and see what was going on in the 
world, but the Divine call leads me in a different 
way from that. The desire of my life is to have 
a knowledge of the truth, and to get it, I must 
spend a great part of my life alone, for then I 
receive more spiritual truths. In so doing I 
learn to control my mind ; for he who has his 
mind on God, God developes and shows won- 
derful things. 

I will now write some more things I did not 
intend to write, because I didn't think the 



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natural mind was prepared for them. But how is 
the natural mind to be enlightened, if the spiritual 
mind does not convey it to the natural ? 

In spite of all 3 T our knowledge that you are 
in the law of the spirit and the spirit shows you 
that you are to tell some of the things which he 
has done for you, you will find yourself holding 
back, because you think no one will seem to 
believe it ; so he tries to keep you from telling 
some of the things of the spirit. So, if he can 
keep you from receiving spiritual instruction the 
devil knows you will not know about the spiritual 
deceivableness. So there is a great spiritual 
battle fought before it reaches man. The devil 
is the prince of this world ; he knows it is bad 
enough for man to understand the natural law, 
though man is his subject yet he cannot control 
him, because he is not subject to his law, but he 
is obedient to the law of God even in his coun- 
try, for he is looking for another country whose 
builder and maker is God ; for he has declared 
by this, that this is not his home as reads the 
ioth verse of ioth chapter of Hebrews: " He 
looked for a city which had foundations, whose 
builder and maker is God ;" also the 16th verse 
of the same chapter, "But now they desire a 
better country, that is, an heavenly ; wherefore 
God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for 
he has prepared for them a city." 



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But this is a spiritual country and the sub- 
jects in the spiritual country are looking for their 
brethren who are in a strange land to enlighten 
them, and teach them the things of their coun- 
try, which their brother is looking for. 

There is a great battle to be fought for the 
prince of the power of the air, will try to stop 
the messenger from coming to this country to 
bring messages to those in his country against 
his country ; but this is what he did, for he 
came to bring to man things against God. 

If we could see the great spiritual fight that 
is going on for the deliverance of man, the 
ones who you were interested in and how they 
are for you. Note how interested they were in 
Daniel, to bring him messages and instruct him 
of things that were to come to pass. Now God 
wants to instruct man to tell to his brother about 
the devils deceiving spirit and how he has been 
deceived, and this can only be brought about by 
the spirit, and there will be a struggle in this 
as in all the rest, but it will be proclaimed ; 
though it has been hindered on the way, man 
has it. 

Daniel 10-10, reads : And behold a hand 
touched me, which set me upon my knees and 
upon the palms of my hands. And he said unto 
me O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand 
the words that I speak unto thee, and stand up- 
right, for unto thee am I sent. And when he 



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had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. 
Then said he unto me, Fear not Daniel for from 
the first day that thou did'st set thy heart to un- 
derstand and to chasten thyself before thy God, 
thy words were heard, and I am come for 
thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of 
Persia withstood me one and twenty days ; but 
lo Michael one of the chief princes came to help 
me, and I remained there with the Kings of 
Persia. Now I am come to make thee under- 
stand what shall befall thy people in the latter 
days ; for yet the vision is for many days. And 
when he had spoken such words unto me, I set 
my face toward the ground and I became dumb. 
And behold one like the similitude of the sons 
of men touched my lips, then I opened my 
mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood 
before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows 
are turned upon me and I have retained no 
strength. For how can the servant of this my 
Lord talk with this my Lord ? for as for me 
straightway there remained no strength in me, 
neither is there breath left in me. Then there 
came again and touched me, one like the appear- 
ance of a man, and he strengthened me, and said, 
O man greatly beloved, fear not, peace be unto 
thee ; be strong, yea, be strong. And when he 
had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and 
said, Let my Lord speak, for thou hast 
strengthened me. Then said he, knowest thou 
wherefore I come unto thee ? and now will I re- 
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turn to fight with the prince of Persia; and when 
I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall 
come. But I will show thee that which is noted 
in the Scripture of truth ; and there is none that 
holdeth with me in these things but Michael 
your prince. 

There was in my store a nice Christian 
young woman. I came home one day and in- 
quired of her health. She said she was well. She 
then asked me what day it was, I told her and 
said, ''don't you know what day it is?" she said 
' 'no, I do not seem to know anything, what is 
the matter with me, am I losing my mind ? ' I 
replied, "I guess not, why?" She replied, "I 
don't remember anything." I said, "do you 
know where you are ? " She said, "yes." "Do 
you know where you live?" "I think so." I 
said "where?" She said, "on the other side of 
town." I saw she was bad off; her mind was 
blank . I hastened after a lady to come and take 
her home, when she came she knew her and said, 
"what are you doing here ?" Then I said, "you 
may go home with her." She replied, "not 
now." "Do you know this is the night you are 
to sing a solo?" "Who?" "You." "Where?" 
I told her. "I do not know anything about sing- 
ing a solo." Then I said, "You go home and 
get ready, and I'll be out to hear you sing." 
It was about six o'clock while eating my supper, 
a voice said, "pray for her." I ceased eating, 
got upon my knees and asked the Lord to restore 



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her mind. When her mind began to come to her 
she said, "Mr. Raikes is praying for me," I got 
ready to go to the concert and when I got on the 
car, there she was on her way to the concert to 
sing her solo. Now notice, the Spirit told me to 
pray for her, and when her mind began to return 
the Spirit told her, I was praying. 

Romans 8-9 reads Ye are not in the flesh 
but in the spirit, that is, you are not controlled 
by the law that controls the flesh, but the spirit 
conveys it to you. Rom. 3-3 v. says For w T hat if 
some did not believe ? shall their unbelief make 
the faith of God without effect ? 

Is it any wonder that those who have not 
obeyed the natural law, dispute the things that 
are told about the spiritual law ? About a year 
afterward, this same young woman died. I had a 
Mission she was one who had received the teach- 
ings more than the rest, and I missed her. One 
Sunday morning I was thinking about what a 
preacher said to me. His words were, "what 
you are teaching is alright, but when you are 
gone that wall be all of it. " I said, "No," 
I have one if I was gone I know would live and 
would teach them, " I became somewhat dis- 
heartened, for I hadn't but six people and part 
of them would be asleep, and I found it hard. I 
thought of what the preacher had said, that I 
was laboring in vain and there would be no one 
to take it up. 



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This was Sunday morning, and I was wide 
awake, the young woman's voice spoke to me 
and said, " Mr. Raikes there is one that has re- 
ceived your teachings and gone," this was in- 
spiration to me. About three months after, I 
was studying what I was going to talk about, 
spiritual wisdom and spiritual understanding ; 
when I had received spiritual understanding, she 
spoke to me again, saying, "Mr. Raikes don't 
you know how I came to your store one night 
and you told me I was of the spirit of the devil. 
You rebuked me, you did'nt do like Adam. 
God created Adam and took away from him and 
made woman, so I have taken from you, and 
now I am a spiritual woman. This was great 
inspiration from me. This young woman was 
converted to God, and not to the Anti-Christ, so 
she was peculiar in some of her ways so the 
people thought the same about me. She would 
come to my store to talk, and I was glad to have 
her come, for there was no one I could talk to 
like I could to her. And I told her there was no 
one I liked as well as her, but she took my 
meaning the wrong way. She was not working 
for me then, I never, went home with her. 
Sometimes we would talk until eleven o'clock, 
but the store would be open and she would go 
home alone. I would close the store and go 
home. She in one direction, I in the other. 
This kind of treatment she didn't understand, 
so she said, " Mr. Raikes you said you liked me 



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better than any one else I said, "I do. ' Then 
she told me of my treatment to her. I said, 
" what do you want to do, drag me down, you 
are of the spirit of the devil. " This is what 
she brought to my remembrance when she told 
me, she had taken from me and was now a 
spiritual woman. 

Seven years before her death she worked for 
me, and I never saw a forward act out of her in 
my life. O, what a blessing it was to her and me. 
She often spoke of it. She followed the teachings 
and she obeyed the natural law, and this pre- 
sented her to Jesus, and the spiritual law destroy- 
ed the cause that made her act; thus, she was a 
model Christian young woman. 

2nd Thes. 2nd chapter, 7th verse reads: that 
the mystery of iniquity doth already work. 
Think what it is to have a mystery to work out. 
Now this is what man has to do, or rather he 
puts himself in the will of the Lord, that he may 
work it out for him, and the more man becomes 
to know the spiritual law, the more he will know 
of the mystery of iniquity. In the spirit of the 
Anti-Christ is all the mystery, and Jesus Christ 
has all the knowledge to give man, that he may 
know the mysteries of the Anti-Christ. We are 
told that the dead know not anything, but who 
are the dead? for we are also told, "that he that 
liveth and believe in me shall never die. " Again 
Jesus says, "My word is spirit, and my word is 
life." 



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Now the one who has received his word, has 
received life, and there is some activity in him. 
Jesus also says, ' 'though he were dead yet shall 
he live," and he that liveth and believeth in me 
shall never die." 

This does not mean the natural belief, but, 
that the spiritual belief has life in it; the natural 
belief is weak like the law that made it. For by 
the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be saved 
in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of 
sin. The law is weak through the flesh, though 
the law stops the act, the flesh wants to break it, 
therefore by the deeds of the law, there shall no 
flesh be justified in his sight. 

Now the spiritual law takes hold of the 
things of the natural law, binds and casts them 
out; thus the man is saved by the spiritual law. 

Now if the dead know nothing it is because 
they have refused to believe and obey the natural 
law, which presents them to Jesus that they 
might be saved, for he plainly says, though they 
were dead, yet shall they live; and those that 
live and believe shall never die; these are they 
whom the natural law presents to Jesus for the 
spiritual law, which destroys the cause that made 
them act, and gives them eternal life. 

Now, if some have eternal life here on earth, 
and some have eternal life and have gone from 
earth, it is the same in both; why shouldn't they 
communicate as they used to do as men, but now 
by the spirit ? 






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In the 26th verse of Romans 8th chapter it 
reads: ''likewise the spirit also helpeth our in- 
firmities, for we know not what we should pray 
for as we ought ' A voice spoke to me and said, 
"you do all the things that the spiritual people do 
but one." I wondered what that one was. 
Then I told the Lord, whatsoever it was I would 
do it. So it was shown to me that it was keep- 
ing the Seventh Day Sabbath. So you see the 
spirit helped my infirmities in that case, and has 
done it in many cases. 

It was spoken to me that there wasn't a man 
on earth who had gone through greater trials 
than I had, not to be effected bodily. I didn't 
understand that, for I said, I haven't many trials 
these days: then I said, I guess it means some- 
thing I will have to go through but I have had 
it nice to what the Apostles had it. After a few 
days it was shown to me, that it was the taking 
of the spiritual life from me and making a spiritual 
woman. Now the Spirit helped my infirmities, 
as I would not have known these things. 

There is no telling what the Lord will do, if 
we are willing to become fools for Christ's sake. 
My prayer is, that those who read this book may 
even see some of the precious gems on its pages 
that I have seen while writing it. 

In writing this book I asked the Lord what 
I should write. He showed me always the com- 
mencement, and this is what the Lord showed 
me. 



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The people are very wicked and the world is 
in greater darkness since the world. This is no 
small subject to write on, since it is proclaimed 
that the world is getting better, and the light of 
the gospel is shining so bright. The wickedness 
before the flood was terrible, and God repented 
that he had made man, and he said he would 
destroy him off of the face of the earth, and he 
destroyed man in the flood. Then the Lord 
went to Sodom, and saw that their wickedness 
was great and he destroyed Sodom. But now 
we have it that the people are very wicked, and 
the world is in greater darkness since the world. 

The spirit speaketh expressly that in the 
latter times some shall depart from the faith, 
giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of 
devils (ist Timothy, 4th chapter 1-2.) 2nd. 
Tim. 3-5 says, Having a form of godliness, but 
denying the power thereof, from such turn away. 

Note, dear reader some of the forms of godli- 
ness which are set forth ; they tell about the 
many Churches and Home, Foreign Missions and 
Charitable Institutions and the great amount of 
money given for the Gospels' sake (so they say) 
but this is not so, it is for the form. These are 
some of the things set forth as proofs that the 
world is growing better, in spite of the sayings 
of the scriptures. But evil men and seducers 
shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being 
deceived. (2nd Tim. 3-13.) Now, isn't this 
worth your best thought, for man is defying 



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God, and says it is not so. Isn't this wicked- 
ness greater than the wickedness before the 
flood, or the wickedness of Sodom ? They are 
deceived and being deceived ; this is a great part 
of our christian instructors and this is greater 
darkness since the world. 

The darkness before the flood and before 
the destruction of Sodom, was nothing in com- 
parison with this darkness. Matt. 11-24, says 
But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable 
for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment 
than for thee. The 2nd verse of the 60th chapter 
of Isaiah reads, for, behold the darkness shall 
cover the earth and gross darkness the people. 
Also, the 15th verse of the 29th chapter of the 
same book. Woe unto them that seek deep to 
hide their counsel from the Lord, and their 
works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth 
us ? And who knoweth us ? 

This is the condition of the world to-day. 
What makes the darkness greater, is because 
this is the gospel dispensation, Jesus has come 
with the light and man has refused the true light, 
and has accepted the false light which the anti- 
christ presents to him. This is great wickedness. 

One would ask, why is this ? It is because 
man was deceived but doesn't believe it. He 
disputes God, but doesn't believe he is doing so. 
tl There's a way that seemeth right unto man, 
but the way thereof leadeth unto death. " Now, 
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the reason for this : Man has refused to keep 
the commandments, and when we fail to do this, 
we are building on the commandments of the 
false God. As Jesus says, " this is life eternal 
that they may know thee, the only true God 
and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. 

So you see, there is danger of knowing a 
God, but not the true God, a Christ, but not 
Jesus Christ. There is but one way for man to 
know God, that is by loving his neighbor as him- 
self; man says, this cannot be done; the deceiv- 
ing spirit has done his work for it has made him 
look away from himself. 

Let us see if man loves himself. Now if I 
want to do you some harm and cause some one 
to dislike you, or stop your progress, I have 
hurt myself and if I loved myself I wouldn't do 
it. 

But man fails to obey God. Notice how 
careful Jesus was to impress this upon his dis- 
ciples. It was for us that the disciples received 
the true God ; but if we do not love ourselves, 
we are under the false God, and he presents us 
to the false Christ, thus you see this great wick- 
edness and great darkness. 

In Isaiah we read, and judgment is turned 
away backward, and justice standeth afar off, 
for truth is fallen in the street, and equity can- 
not enter. 



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Yea, truth faileth and he that departeth 
from evil maketh himself a prey, and the Lord 
saw it, and it displeased him, but there was no 
judgment. Oh, that the day may come when 
all those who claim they love Jesus, may love 
themselves, and that all creeds will be forgotten 
and all will work together under the banner of 
universal love. 

In the tenth Chapter of St. John 4 verse we 
read as follows : And when he putteth forth 
his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the 
sheep follow him: for they know his voice; and 
a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from 
him: for they know not the voice of a stranger. 

But how are we to know His voice? 1st, 
We must be begotten of God. "We know that 
whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but he that 
is begotten of God keepeth himself and that 
wicked one toucheth him not. (1st John 5-18.) 
When man obeys the commandments he has been 
begotten of God, and the wicked one toucheth 
him not. O what a hard struggle man will have 
even after he has received the instructions of 
God, and they have bound the evil powers. 
Now this is w T hen he keepth himself, and that the 
wicked one can't make him yield to the evil 
passions. 

Thus the man is begotten, and he is on his 
way to learn the voice of God, for we know that 
whosoever is born of God sinneth not, thus the 



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man is begotten and born. To be born is to re- 
ceive the spirit of Jesus, and this makes him a 
new man for the instructions of God has begotten 
him and the law presents him to Jesus, and the 
spirit which had him bound and was not allowed 
to act only in the man, thus the spirit torments 
him because he is not given liberty; the law 
bound them and Jesus cast him out of the man, 
as God did the devil out of heaven, and Jesus 
rules man by his spirit. Jesus says : "My sheep 
know my voice and follow me." But, we are to 
learn his loving voice, for there are many voices 
calling to us and we know not his voice distinctly 
but he teaches us how to know it, in ways we 
will understand. 

I told you how I was asked if I was willing 
to forsake women the balance of my days. At 
once I said, "Yes Lord anything to glorify 
God. ' ' I knew his voice because I had already 
forsaken them, but I thought there might be a 
time when I would be told to take a wife. 

This was not hard for me to understand, for 
I had this in me. When the voice spoke to me 
and said, " you do all the things that the 
spiritual people do, but one, " then it was shown 
to me that it wasn't a voice like the others but 
the voice of the spirit and I answered to it the 
same as the others, because these were in me ; 
but when I was told one had received my teach- 
ing and was gone, it was by a voice I knew. 



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When I was told I had gone through greater 
trials than any man on earth, not to have the 
body effect I did not know the voice nor did I 
know what was meant, but it was made plain to 
me through a spiritual voice. All these different 
ways are to learn us to know His voice. 

If a thing is already done in you, you will 
say ''yes" to that that has been done, and to 
that which is not in you, he brings it to you by 
a voice you know, now this is all done that we 
may learn to know his voice. 

In speaking to us by a voice we know, 
makes us learn to know the spiritual voice, for 
the natural voice tells us of spiritual things. 
The natural voice tells us of spiritual things, just 
the same as the natural law presents us to Jesus 
that we become to know the spiritual law, so the 
natural voice presents us to the spiritual voice. 

It is very important that we know His voice, 
for His kingdom is a spiritual kingdom and we 
are His subjects; we are in a strange country 
and we are here to show 7 that our country is 
greater than the one we are in : also, how he 
takes better care of His subjects, and His wisdom 
and power is greater than that of this world. 
Thus we must learn our King's voice, so we can 
do His will in this country and convey His mes- 
sages to the subjects of this country against their 
country. So man must know the spiritual 
language. 



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Think of Peter in the 3rd verse of Acts 5th 
chapter. But Peter said, Ananias, why has 
Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, 
and to keep back part of the price of the land ? 

Where did Peter get his knowledge ? It was 
conveyed to him by the spirit. Also in Acts 3rd 
chapter we read, And a certain man lame from 
his mother's womb, was carried, whom they laid 
daily at the gate of the temple which is called 
Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into 
the temple; who seeing Peter and John about to 
go into the temple, asked an alms. And Peter 
fastening his eyes upon him, with John, said, 
Look on us. And he gave heed unto them ex- 
pecting to receive something of them . 

Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; 
but such as I have give I unto thee: In the name 
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. 

Now this was told him by the Spirit, and, 
think of the many wonderful things that were 
done by the Apostles ; it was because they were 
representatives of a spiritual kingdom and these 
dear apostles were showing their King's power 
in another country among their subjects, that 
they might learn to believe in their King and 
like his ruling, and also become one of His sub- 
jects obeying, the laws of their King, and be a 
citizen of their country under their King they 
served. 






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Some say the miracles the Apostles did were 
in the beginning of the gospel dispensation, and 
there is no need of them now, but the world is 
more wicked and in greater darkness since the 
world. God is the same and has the same in- 
terest in Man's salvation. 

One would ask, why is it men are not doing 
like the Apostles ? It is because of the great 
darkness ; man does not believe he has been 
deceived, but when he sees himself and sees his 
foundation is not like the foundation that God 
wrote on the tables of stone, for this is the foun- 
dation that God gives for all mankind to build 
their christian structure on . 

Now I hope you will cast away all self will 
and prejudices, if you have any, and try to look 
the way God would have you look at the condi- 
tion of things from an unprejudiced christian 
standpoint, in the fear of God and not man, and 
see if we are building on the foundation God 
gave man. 

God gave man the ten commandments, and 
in them is love thy neighbor as thyself. If man 
lies on his neighbor, takes the advantage of him 
or oppresses him in Church or State, little does 
he think he is endangering himself more than 
his neighbor, for if he had the love of God in 
him he wouldn't oppress his neighbor, but would 
rather suffer the wrong, but there is a cause for 
all this. Now let us consider the cause. It is 



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because he fails to live the commandments and 
have them written on the fleshy tablet of his 
heart, for in them there is something to attack 
every evil that is in man, for man is not willing 
to yield himself up to their teachings. 

This is hard to the flesh; man refuses it and 
accepts the false God which Jesus warns against 
in John 17-3. That they may know the only 
true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. 
This is the condition we are in now. They have 
accepted the commandments by letter and not 
upon the fleshy tablets of their heart, in it is the 
deceivableness of unrighteousness. 

This is the condition of the church, and 
under the false God and false Christ, they are 
hoisting their banner onl> "to be torn down, for 
this is great wickedness, and great darkness 
since the world. Whether they will hear or not 
they will forbear, they shall know there has been 
a prophet among them, thus saith the Lord. 

In writing this book, the hardest thing I had 
to write was to proclaim that there had been a 
prophet among them. O, now I thought of Isaiah 
when he cried out in the words of Chapter 53, 
1st verse. Who hath believed our report and to 
whom is the arm of the Lord revealed ? 

I saw him as never before standing before 
the people, telling them of the things that God 
had told him to tell them. 



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No wonder he cried out who hath believed 
our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord 
been revealed? or in other words, who knows 
that these things are true ? 

In the anguish of his heart he cried for a 
witness to the truths he has proclaimed. 

Think of one man standing, telling the 
people things they do not want to hear ; and to 
have a witness is a help to any one, when he is 
telling the people something they do not want to 
hear, and do not see, and do not want to believe. 
But it must be proclaimed. 

Man, Know Thyself. 

"Let the wicked forsake his way and the 
unrighteous man his thoughts, let him return 
unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him, 
and to our God for he will abundantly pardon," 
Isaiah 55, 7th verse. Now this is conversion, 
plain and simple. 

But this has been greatly attacked by the 
Anti-christ, for he is to oppose Jesus Christ as 
the devil corrupted God's creation by deceiving 
Eve, so the Anti-christ deceives man by feelings, 
this he offers man and man has accepted feeling 
for conversion, and he still has his bad habits; 
but man says, ' ' he is converted because he feels 
his spirit (meaning the spirit of God)," but he is 
deceived, for this is the Anti-christ spirit which 
produces feeling without obedience to God. For 
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man opposes God after his conversion as before, 
but as men have said to the writer, I know I have 
been converted for I never had such feelings in 
my life, and I know I have been born of God, for 
I know I could not get such feelings from none 
but God. If man could believe while he was not 
deceived w r hen Eve was, yet he was affected. 
This makes man easy to be deceived by the Anti- 
christ. The devil did not attack the greater, but 
he knew if he could deceive Eve, man would be 
affected as she is a part of man. 

When Jesus came to redeem man the Anti- 
christ presented to man the deceivableness of un- 
righteousness as Jesus Christ came to convert man 
to God by the spirit. The Anti-christ don't want 
to stop conversion no more than the devil wants 
to stop multiplying for it has been corrupted. So 
the Anti-christ wants conversion for it has been 
corrupted when Jesus told them he beheld Satan 
falling from heaven as lightning, " the spirit of 
deceivableness of unrighteousness entered in 
them," this means that every good that God 
brings forth, he will meet it to keep man from be- 
lieving Jesus, and as Jesus told his Apostles, ' ' he 
would give them the spirit of truth to guide them 
in all truth," so the Anti-christ will direct the 
Anti-christ preacher in all things to oppose Jesus, 
and when Anti-christ preachers preach they say, 
" he don't do the things altogether right but he 
can preach, and I feel his preaching. I do not 
care what anybody may say, he has in him the 



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power." So he deceives, this makes the act. 
Now I will explain why you enjoy a bad preacher 
and I hope you will not let it pass your best 
thoughts. He has in him the deceiving spirit 
and when Eve was deceived, we have received 
the same as she. 

This is hard for us to accept, so when the 
Anti-christ preacher appeals to us with his spirit 
we have the same deceivableness in us, but if we 
will do as we know we will get rid of this de- 
ceivableness if we will accept, Isa. 55th, 7th 
verse. " Let the wicked forsake his way" this is 
hard to do as it is altogether contrary to the de- 
ceivableness of unrighteousness. 

When Jesus called his twelve disciples, Matt. 
10, 1st, he gave them power against unclean 
spirits to cast them out and to heal all manners 
of sickness and all manners of diseases. And it 
came to pass that as they went in the way a 
certain man said unto him Lord, I will follow thee 
wheresoever thou goest, and Jesus said unto him, 
1 ' foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, 
but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head, ' ' 
and he said unto another, " follow me," but he 
said " Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my 
father," Jesus said unto him, " let the dead bury 
the dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of 
God, ' ' and another said ' ' Lord I will follow thee, 
but let me first go bid them farewell which are 
at home at my house, " and Jesus said unto him 



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1 ' no man having put his hand to the plough and 
looking back is fit for the kingdom of God . ' ' 

After these things the Lord appointed another 
seventy, and sent them two and two before his 
face into every city and place whither he himself 
would come, and Jesus said, " go your way, be- 
hold I send you forth as lambs among wolves, 
and heal the sick that are therein and say unto 
them, the kingdom of God is come nigh unto 
you," and the seventy returned again with joy 
saying, " Lord even the devils are subject unto us 
through thy name, " and he said unto them, "I 
beheld Satan as lightning falling from heaven," 
and he entered in them, they had told Jesus, 
" devils were subject to them through his name," 
but the Anti-christ what was to oppose Jesus 
Christ had entered into them; they won't believe 
Jesus, thus the Anti-christ has accomplished his 
purpose to turn man against Jesus, as the devil 
turned man against God, and because they could 
not understand these spiritual things, with a 
natural mind, for the natural man recieves not 
the things of God neither can he know them for 
they are spiritually discerned' Therefore, they 
recieved the Anti-christ spirit. For to meet 
man's condition there must be a spiritual law, thus 
Jesus comes with the law of the spirit. When 
the devil made man break the natural law that 
God gave him, then all of the laws that governs 
God's creations were affected, and to man's des- 
tructions. 






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One day after a storm, I was asked what 
caused them, I said, I do not know, bnt I cannot 
think God sends cyclones and earthquakes to de- 
stroy towns and swallow up cities, and lightning 
to the destruction of things ; but I believe in time 
God will make it plain to man. Therefore, God 
sent his Son with the law of the spirit of life to 
destroy the law of sin and death, for the law of 
the spirit is strong in the flesh, for it destroys the 
cause that makes the act, thus we find man stop- 
ping things which seems impossible for him to 
stop ; thus he is on his way back to the law that 
has not been broken, which is the law of the spirit 
of life, and as man finds this law, the law that 
has been working destruction to him, will lose its 
force. 

I knew a man who was a drunkard and he 
said, "Oh ! I wish I could be like you, I would 
give anything to stop this habit, but I cannot, ' ' 
he was under the law of sin and death to the de- 
struction of many but there are other evils just 
as binding as the drinking habit, Oh ! man break 
the law of sin and death that holds you, \ou can 
do it. The spiritual law is strong in the flesh, it 
really will destroy the cause that makes the act, 
all other laws that has been affected to the de- 
struction of man, will be affected by the spiritual 
law to the good of man, for by man's obedience, 
the spiritual law will work obediences to him in 
all things. Therefore, in the new heaven and 



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new earth, in which dwelleth righteousness, there 
will be no destructive laws to man. 

Isaiah i ith chapter from the 6th to 9th verse, 
reads, " That the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, 
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and 
the calf and the young lion, and the fatling to- 
gether and a little child shall lead them. The 
cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall 
lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw 
like the ox, the suckling child shall play on the 
hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put 
his hand on the cockatrice den, they shall not 
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the 
earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord 
and if man will obey God, then Jesus brings him 
into a spiritual fight. Thus Jesus shows him, he 
must cleanse his thoughts, this attacks the things, 
that made him act against God, and if he will 
fight in the spiritual law, as he did in the natural 
law, then he will have overcome the Anti-christ 
and he will find, he has no desire to disobey God , 
but it will be as Jesus says, "Satan comes and 
finds nothing in me. ' ' 

In the 6th chapter of St. John, beginning at 
the 51st verse, Jesus says, " I am the living bread, 
which cometh down from heaven, if any man eats 
of this bread he shall live forever, and the bread 
that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for 
the life of the world." 



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In verse 63rd Jesus also says, " It's the spirit 
that quickeneth ; the flesh profiteth nothing ; the 
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, they 
are life," thus you see how Jesus explained to 
them, that he wasn't telling them that they were 
to eat his literal flesh, but the bread that cometh 
down from heaven, was the life giving, and He 
says, " the bread I will give is my flesh, which I 
will give for the life of the world. " They said, 
" this is a hard saying, who can hear it? " And 
many of his disciples went back, and walked no 
more with him. Then Jesus said unto the twelve, 
will ye also go away ? Simon Peter answered 
him, saying, " Lord, to whom shall we go ? Thou 
hast the words of eternal life, and we believe and 
are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the 
living God." Therefore, the twelve stayed with 
him, and learned about the things Jesus had said 
about the bread. There is but one way, man can 
know the things of God, and that is by believing 
him, and keeping his commandments, which 
thing the seventy didn't do, but the twelve when 
they had learned them warned the people. 

In the 1st chapter of John, he says, ' ' beloved, 
believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, 
whether they are of God, because many false 
prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby 
know ye the spirit of God. Every spirit that con- 
fesseth, that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of 
God, and every spirit that confesseth not that 
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God ; 



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And this is that spirit of Anti-ehrist, whereof ye 
have heard that it should come, and even now 
already it is in the world. " "They are of the 
world." Therefore, speak they of the world, 
and the world heareth them, we are of God. He 
that knoweth God heareth us, he that is not of 
God, heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit 
of truth, and the spirit of error. 

Now if man will believe God, and keep his 
commandments, he will show him the spirit of 
error, as he did to his twelve disciples, that we 
warn others also. 

Jesus said to Peter, ' ' when thou art converted 
strengthen the brethren," Jesus came to convert 
man to God that he might receive his spirit and 
overcome the devil, but the anti-christ wants man 
converted to him that they may receive the spirit 
of the anti-christ, and oppose the things of Jesus 
Christ. 

Man was born in sin and shapen in iniquity. 
Iniquity is an unjust deal. This was man's con- 
dition when he came into the world. Now he has 
not made any choice one way or the other, but 
God created man in his own image, and when 
Eve was deceived then she received the image of 
the devil this she gave Adam, and the devil had 
accomplished his purpose, by corrupting God's 
creations. Then they began to multiply, and 
Eve bare a son and said, ' ' I have gotten a man 
from the Lord, ' ' now this man was a murderer, 



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she was deceived, for this was a child of the devil. 
Now she did not know what effect her dis- 
obedience would have on her children, but the 
devil knew that the children would receive the 
same deceiving spirit that she had received ; this 
is the unjust deal, and to meet this unjust deal, 
God gave his son to come after man to convert 
him to God by the spirit, and conversion is to be- 
lieve God, and believe he is a rewarder of those 
that diligently seek him. Therefore, man will 
seek him by keeping his commandments, and 
this binds that strong man that entered into him 
by the unjust deal. Matthew 12th chapter, 29th 
verse. Or else how can one enter into a strong 
man's house and spoil his goods except he first 
bind the strong man? And then he will spoil 
his house. 

Wherefore the law is our school-master, to 
bring us to Christ that we may be justified by 
faith. Jesus says in St. John 14th chapter 20th 
verse, "In that day ye shall know that I am in 
the Father and ye in me and I in you." Thus 
you see how they became to be one. This is a 
great mystery, but if they will do his will they 
will know the doctrine. Though man is far 
away, he can come back, though the path is 
narrow he can walk in it. 

When Jesus was led by the spirit into the 
wilderness to be tempted of the devil he gave his 
flesh for the life of the world. He was led into 

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the wilderness to fight the great battle for man's 
eternal life in the same flesh that the devil had 
control of. If Jesus had yielded we would not 
have had eternal life, for the devil would have 
controlled the flesh that the spirit of God was in, 
but he could not. Thus he offers us eternal life, 
and if we would have this life we must give our 
flesh for the life of the world, as Jesus did. Jesus 
says to man, ''Greater works shall ye do than I 
have done," the greater work is this while Jesus 
had in his flesh all the passions of sin, yet he did 
not practice any of them, and he was born of a 
Virgin; we are born in sin and shapened in 
iniquity and in sin did our mothers conceive us, 
and if man will obey as Jesus shows him, this is 
greater work than Jesus done. 

Eve was created good, but she listened to 
the instructions of the devil, thus she became 
bad, and bore a son, he was the same as she to 
carry out the things that had entered into her by 
believing the devil. 

Mary was born of the flesh with all the 
things that had entered into Eve's flesh against 
God, and Jesus was born not according to 
the flesh but of God, but came through the 
flesh that had been defiled by Eve's disobedience 
as Cain was. Therefore, Mary listened to the 
things God told her contrary to the passions of 
the flesh, and she brought forth a son to carry 
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God, and not according to the things of her 
flesh. For the difference between Eve and 
Mary and Cain and Jesus is one was bad by be- 
lieving the devil ; she produced the kind that he 
wanted to carry out the things as they are in him, 
and Mary was born in sin and shapen in iniquity, 
with all the passion of sin, yet through the in- 
struction of God she did not yield to them, and 
she brought forth a son to carry out the things 
that was told her of God as the devil told Eve 
things that was contrary to her creation. Thus 
she accepted his instructions, born a son to carry 
them out, and Mary born contrary to God yet re- 
ceived the instructions of God and brought forth 
a son that carried out the things contrary to her 
flesh. Therefore, we must stand the temptations 
as they come. 

We claim that Christ has entered into us, if 
so, then we have the same power to keep us as 
Jesus had. My dear reader, we must give our 
flesh for the life of the world by standing the 
trials. 

The man that has Christ in him will stand, 
but those that have received the An ti- Christ will 
yield to the flesh, for happiness or madness both 
depends on how they feel, for they are Anti- 
Christ converts with the same passions for things 
against God as Eve had received. The strong 
man hasn't as much as been bound, his house 
hasn't been entered, nor his goods spoiled, so he 



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has them all. Therefore, they live in adultery, 
they break up families, and ruin their daughters. 
Jesus says of them, " Woe unto you, scribes and 
Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and 
land to make one proselyte, and when he is 
made, ye make him two fold more the child of 
hell than yourselves." This is the Gospel 
which Jesus Christ taught his twelve disciples. 

The seventy refused to hear it, therefore, 
they accepted the Anti-Christ conversion which is 
feeling ; this is hard to explain, for there is some 
truth in feeling, but this is that deceiving spirits 
strong fort, for they still do bad and yet get 
happy from feelings. 

I knew a young woman who had lived the 
life and did not depend on feeling, but done the 
things of God, and she taken sick, and the night 
she died she said to the writer, I have not any 
choice to go or stay, and nothing to lean on, but 
I know I have done the will of God, then after 
she said, <( I heard a voice, " she looked up, got 
up and shouted, and when they laid her down 
she was dead. Now, she was happy, this was 
feeling, and also the knowledge of doing the 
things of God. The Anti-Christ converts de- 
pends on feelings for their acceptance to God. 
This spirit converts and makes them depend 
wholly on feeling. Therefore, the Anti-Christ 
preachers are converted by this deceiving spirit, 
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In ist Thess. 2nd Chapter reads, "Now we 
beseech you brethren, by the coming of our Lord 
Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto 
him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be 
ye troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by 
letter as from us that the day of Christ is at hand. 
Let n'o man deceive you by any means for that 
day shall not come except there come a falling 
away first, and that man of sin be revealed. The 
son of perdition, who opposeth and exalted him- 
self above all that is called God or that is 
worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the 
temple of God showing himself that he is God. 
Remember ye not that when I was yet with you, 
I told you these things, and now ye know what 
with holdeth that he might be revealed in his 
time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already 
work; only he who now letteth will let until he 
be taken out of the way, and then shall that 
wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume 
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy 
with the brightness of his coming. Even him 
whose coming is after the working of Satan with 
all power and signs and lying wonder, and with 
all deceiveableness of unrighteousness in them 
that perish, because they received not the love of 
the truth that they may be saved, for men loved 
darkness rather than light because their deeds 
were evil, for everyone that doeth evil hateth the 
light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds 
shall be reproved." 



When Eve bore Cain and Abel, Cain was 
not sincere, but Abel was, and God had respect 
to Abel's offering, but not to Cain's then Cain 
killed Abel. Think you Eve wanted this done, 
yet she was the mother of all evil, and it will 
come out in her posterity. For when God began 
to tell his plans to bring man back through his 
prophets, then they began to kill them, that they 
may stop his plans ; when the wise men came 
to Bethlehem and went to Herod he tried to get 
them to betray Jesus into his hands that he might 
kill him, and when he found they did not do it 
he had all the children killed from two years old 
and under, in this he failed to get Jesus because 
Jesus was to come, man was to see him, and he 
was to proclaim himself the son of God. The 
devil knew this was his time, and Judas was born 
under the plan of the devil. Jesus says, "woe 
unto that man, by whom the son of man is be- 
trayed, it had been good for that man if he had 
not been born, but God wants man born to him, 
and he offers us a complete redemption through 
his son. 

The devil told man, "he would become as 
God, to know good and evil, but he didn't think 
he'd ever get knowledge with power to overcome 
him, therefore note the plan of salvation that was 
laid to bring man back. A careful, strong plan 
from Seth on down, a little more binding until 
Moses came with the Mosaic law, then after this 



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God gave him the ten commandments, this attacks 
all the things that entered into man, but don't 
move them ; thus Moses gave them a bill of 
divorcement, and when Christ came, they asked 
him for divorcements, but he wouldn't give them 
any, and they told him that Moses did, and Jesus 
said, " Moses gave you this on the account of 
the hardness of your heart, but it was not so 
from the beginning. ' ' 

Now Jesus came to bring man back, when 
God created them they were one, but when the 
devil tempted Eve, and she yielded to him then 
she left Adam, and she received the image of the 
devil, this was the first divorcement, then she 
came after man and explained to him the things 
the devil had told her he accepted the things, 
and both became one again in the image of the 
devil. Therefore, Jesus comes after the man 
who has lost his image, but not to restore his 
image, but to make him the son of God by 
putting in him the same spirit that was in Jesus 
when he was born in this world in the form of 
sinful flesh. 

Thus he is a part of God, a strong man and 
will stand the temptations as they come for the 
knowledge of God has been put in him and then 
man will go after woman to bring her to God as she 
went after him to tell him things of the devil, so 
he will tell her the things of God, and she will 
understand the unjust deal that fell on her 



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children by her disobedience. She will receive 
the spirit that he tells her of, as man received the 
spirit that she told him of, and woman will be 
subject to her husband, but not like the deceiv- 
ableness of unrighteousness makes people believe. 
For woman is not to be subject to man in all 
things, who has not been redeemed and had the 
plan of salvation in him. For there are some 
women whom men have to be subject to in all 
things to keep them up from ruin and destruction. 

Man was not deceived, but the woman, so 
God sent his son after man to save him by the 
law of the spirit which puts in him the plan of 
salvation, and he will go after woman, and she 
will be subject to her husband in all things, then 
man will explain to woman how children are 
born in sin, and shapened in iniquity, and in sin 
do mothers conceive them, then they will not 
multiply, for they will have received the knowl- 
edge of good and evil, as God makes it plain to 
man, and this can only be done by believing God 
and obeying him. Thus man will receive the 
spirit of truth which brings all things to his re- 
membrance; now this does not mean that man 
will know God fully, but if he will be faithful he 
will show him all the truths for his day and 
generation. 

In the days of Abraham and Lot, they lived 
up to the things that God told them, but this 
would not do in Moses' day, because God told 



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him things different and required more from him. 
In the gospel dispensation the faithfulness of 
Moses would not meet the requirements of the 
gospel dispensation. 

Paul says, ' ' God had revealed things to him 
that had been hidden from the foundation of the 
world," he also says, " the mystery of iniquity 
doth already work, only he who now letteth will 
let until he be taken out of the way and then shall 
that wicked be revealed," this is now no longer 
a mystery, for it has been revealed, and man has 
accepted, but there were only a few believed 
Abraham in his day, only a few believed Moses, 
and only a few believed Jesus in his day, and 
there will be but a few who will believe the things 
in this day, and do them, but with this 
knowledge we will not multiply, but will wait 
until there is a new heaven and a new earth in 
which dwelleth righteousness, and every seed re- 
ceives its own body. For Jesus says, "how can 
a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." There- 
fore, we know our bodies are corrupted, and it is 
impossible for it to bring forth good fruit, so we 
will not multiply according to the natural law 
which has been affected by man's disobedience to 
oppose God and to man's destruction, for we have 
received the law of the spirit of knowledge, good 
and evil, which destroys the cause that makes the 
act, with this knowledge we will be obedient to 
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God in all things as he shows us, for there will be 
a day when the Church will lift high the stand- 
ard, for the glory of the Lord will shine more and 
more until the perfect day. 

The time will be when men and women will 
have the highest respect for each other, but will 
not come together to multiply, for they will un- 
derstand the law of the spirit of life, and they 
will wait for a new heaven and new earth that is 
governed by a spiritual law, for God is preparing 
his people for his second coming and he will re- 
ceive them unto himself in Rev. 14th chapter 3rd 
and 4th verses reads, " and they sang as it were 
a new song, before the throne and before the 
beast, and the elders and no man could learn that 
song, but the hundred and forty and four 
thousand which were redeemed from the earth. 
These are they which were not defiled with 
women, for they are Virgins, and what makes 
them Virgins is they have followed the teachings 
of Jesus and he shows them about the new birth, 
which is spiritual, and they will not yield to the 
natural law. This is redemption by revelation 
plain and simple. 

J. W. RAIKES, 

406 East nth Street, 
Wilmington, Delaware. 



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